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Plot Summary:
Christmas 1945. In a train from Stockholm to Berlin are a motley collection. It is the failure of the author Gunnar who wants to leave his old life and make a contribution in Berlin; physician Henry who plan to marry Marie and likewise Henry's current wife Karin, who he plans to kill during the journey, the middle-aged gay couple Pompe and Sixten, a soldier going to Uppsala but is on the wrong train: the cheerful and cynical old Margaret, and a dressed elf and a surly conductor. With the train are also a number of Baltic refugees accompanied by two nuns to be sent to Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, not serious, neo noir, dark comedy, realistic, slapstick, surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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Tokyo Eyes (1998)
Plot Summary:
The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, detective
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Junk Mail (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dimwitted, somewhat misanthropic Oslo mail carrier Roy's quiet life changes dramatically on the day he steals a set of keys and lets himself into the apartment of a deaf woman who seems to be in trouble with a psychotic criminal. Though he doesn't know it at the time, his and her fate are about to intertwine and this is not going to be to his benefit.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, cult classic, humorous, black comedy, experimental, cult horror, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Shooting Elizabeth (1992)
Plot Summary:
Before a man (Jeff Goldblum) can kill his nagging wife (Mimi Rogers) as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Divorcing Jack (1998)
Plot Summary:
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the young woman he has just made love to dead and his only ally is a nun.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, tension, suspense
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Gunblast Vodka (2000)
Plot Summary:
Supermodel Everhart is kidnapped by bad guy Prochnow and rescued by good guy Otto in technopop action.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, semi serious, suspense, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Baker (2007)
Plot Summary:
Milo (Damian Lewis) is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfil a contract for the first time, Milo escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, captivating, dark, offbeat, realistic
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Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie. Sketch comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, black comedy, sketch comedy, dark comedy, fun
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Kiss Kiss (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic
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Excuse Me Darling, But Lucas Loved Me (1996)
Plot Summary:
Until Lucas appeared in their lives, Dani, Carlos and Toni had a quiet life with no major concerns. They shared almost everything: the house, housework, dogs, his homosexual tendencies and debts. It was these that forced them to rent one of the bedrooms of their floor. Then came Lucas, his hair long, his charming smile, and his muscular body to completely change the life and destiny of their lovers home. Lucas is found dead but ... Who killed him? All had reasons to do so, or maybe none.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, black comedy, campy
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Wish You Were Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, romantic comedy, crime thriller
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Lansdown (2001)
Plot Summary:
In this dark comedy, defense lawyer Jake Jorgenson's carefully constructed life begins to unravel when he kills his wife's lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Thriller, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, witty, neo noir, independent film
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The Bone Man (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended getaway to the countryside. But before long he becomes embroiled in the convoluted world of the locals of a supposedly quiet town.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, sincere, detective, offbeat
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Guest House Paradiso (1999)
Plot Summary:
Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, disturbing, disgusting, funny, surreal, dark comedy, offbeat, slapstick comedy
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Zero 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
What would you get if you mix a gangster film and a soap opera? "Zero 2" is a crazy twister of criminal romance and sexy violence that just might laugh you to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, sexy, non-linear
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Head Above Water (1993)
Plot Summary:
Einar and Bjørn leave Lene on the island for a fishing trip. Then her former lover, Gaute, drops by unexpectedly. Drunk, he sleeps in the double bed. Lene sleeps on the couch and wakes up when the men come back. She tries to wake Gaute, but then discovers that he's dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, dark, cult classic, scary, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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Zoom Hunting (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yang Ruyi (32), a fashion magazine photographer, lives with her elder sister Yang Ruxing (33), a rational, introverted detective fiction author. Ruyi has inadvertently photographed a couple making madly passionately love. Few days later in a shopping center not far from her home, she finds the woman already married, leading a child and is with a different man. Ruyi shares her secret with Ruxing who is suffering from writer's block. The two sisters begin to observe the couple; gradually Ruxing even writes some of her observations into her novel, without letting Ruyi knows it. Late one night, Ruyi views two people are arguing, but as she picks up her camera to photograph she can only see two vague, dark outlines wrestling one another; Ruyi calls the police but upon arriving, nothing seems out of order. Ruyi is convinced she has mistaken nothing; she enlarges the photo and discovers a third outline looks pretty much like her older sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Paint Job (1992)
Plot Summary:
"Taav's first feature occupies the same setting and psychological territory as David Lynch's visions of small-town America. About a love triangle, involving house painter Wesley (Patton), his boss Willie (Pastorelli) and Willie's sensitive, vulnerable wife Margaret (Neuwirth), the film turns into a picture of hidden desires, romantic dreams and dangerous obsessions... An unsettling film in which ideas, tone and texture unite with quietly confident storytellin". TIME OUT Film Guide.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shut Up and Shoot! (2006)
Plot Summary:
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, cynical, suspense, independent film, semi serious, biting, surprise ending, dark comedy
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Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991)
Plot Summary:
Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an affair with a man staying at the motel. The husband hires a psychotic criminal to spy on them, the wife and her lover plan to murder the husband, and the voyeuristic motel manager is spying on everybody.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, clever, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, black comedy, cult film
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Out Cold (1989)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about an angry married couple, a private investigator, and a walk-in freezer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, rough, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious
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The Wrong Guy (1997)
Plot Summary:
An executive (Dave Foley) after being passed over for a promotion to president storms into his office only to find the man who got the promotion dead. Assuming everyone will think he committed the crime he takes off as a fugitive.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, fast paced, dark comedy, realistic, not serious, crying, independent film, detective, spoof
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Head Above Water (1996)
Plot Summary:
Judge George (Harvey Keitel) brings his young wife, Nathalie (Cameron Diaz), to a remote island for a vacation. But while George accompanies their only neighbor -- Nathalie's childhood friend Lance (Craig Sheffer) -- on a fishing trip, Nathalie spends time with her ex, Kent (Billy Zane). When Kent ends up dead the next morning, Nathalie tries to hide the evidence before her husband gets home. After the body is found, the events of the previous night unravel, with unexpected revelations.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, dark comedy, funny, light, suspense, melancholic, absurd, talky, realistic
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Stranger Than Fiction (2000)
Plot Summary:
Lives spiral out of control when four friends cover up a murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, tense, realistic, surprise ending
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9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, campy
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Dead Gorgeous (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Second World War has just ended and two old friends Rose and Antonia unexpectedly meet in London's Regent Street. Rose is a frustrated housewife married to civil servant with as many secrets as he has mistresses, while Antonia is sick of her rich husband and wants to marry her lover. They are both unhappy with their marriages and plot to kill their husbands.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, thrilling, humorous, neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy
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A Cold Day in August (2003)
Plot Summary:
One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three years ago. August has become a real problem for some of the bosses around town, and Ronnie will soon find out just what his Frankenstein's monster will cost him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Brüno (2009)
Plot Summary:
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, parody, humorous, controversial, stylized, sex comedy, hilarious, sexual, absurd
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What a Drag (1996)
Plot Summary:
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, hot, campy
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Not Love, Just Frenzy (1996)
Plot Summary:
From the land of Almodovar comes a hot new film about drugs, sex & everything else!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, campy
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Duplex (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, hilarious, black comedy, stylized, feel good, entertaining, funny, romantic comedy, slapstick